Keeping Records

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Who Is This For? (with Jon Lomberg)

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Published May 07, 2021 2:00am

You guys...wait...This is huge.

Space artist and science journalist Jon Lomberg, co-creator of the original Voyager Golden Record (!!!), joins Caleb and Shelby to talk about his experience putting together humanity's epitaph, which left Earth in 1977.

Jon offers his take on aliens, behind the scene stories, and how to comprehend yourself at the scale of the universe.

Jon's own personal Golden Record is expansive and comprises as many genres of world music as possible, including (but not limited to):Hawaiian slack key or vocals, like “Ho’olauna Aloha” Teresa Bright from her al...

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